aud it's about time you got here!! LOL

i'm having issues with this website again. stupid thing won't send me new emails for the new week's thread...i'm finding my way here thru last week's link to this thread. stupid thing LOL

Ok it finally worked....YAY.

I did 20 minutes on the stair stepper at work. I'm hot, sweaty, and all pink now. Oh boy LOL

love the hot, pink, and sweaty HolyT!

Just taking a break from the never ending house work. Thinking about a snack, hmm I guess it will be either an apple or yogurt.

I'll smell better later LMAO

Hey!!

I was on earlier this morning but nobody had been here yet. So I went out and did some yard work today. Just came in from my walk/jog and boy am I happy. I ran a 1 mile stretch. Walked about 1/10 the ran another .7. Amazing!! My legs are feeling it. And my back is feeling all the yard work. I think I will sleep good tonight. Hopefully a bunch of fat will melt away while I sleep.

Knitt- Glad to have you here. Hope we can help each other. I too want to impress the doc in Sept. Let's get busy.

Holyt- Hold on through your ups and downs. Good news at work, not so good at home. Hang in there. Get that treadmill moving, it helps reduce stress.

Lili- I understand the vegetable thing. I like very few myself. Just eat alot of the ones you like. I see you are a runner. I am trying to be.

Nix- Hang in there. Every relationship has ups and downs. I'm sure you'll be back up soon. I made a low fat, low cal, zuchini bread today. I hope it doesn't suck.

Jeni- Keep inspiring me on the running. I hope it tranforms my body too. Way to go on the loss. Awesome!!!

Aud- Glad you are back. We miss you when you're gone. I hear ya on the baby weight, but I've got ya beat. I am about 70 pounds more than before I had my daughter 23 years ago. But I'm working on it, it has just taken me some time.

Okay, I think I'm caught up now.

W- same as always
E- same
E- jog/walk 2 miles and a buttload of yard work
D- Ready!! This is a good one! HOPE PLUS HARD WORK EQUALS SUCCESS!!

See ya tomorrow. Hopefully less of me will be here.

Rough unproductive day at work. I spent most of it sobbing and snuffing up snot while I tried to write a letter to BF to go with the gift I bought him for our 18month anniversary tomorrow. I left it for him on the bed at lunch so he would get it before I got home and read the letter with no distractions. I bought him a watch... to count the minutes everyday that I think about him. Got home, we talked some more... felt like there was progress and I feel like I can get up tomorrow and not be consumed with emotion all day. Whew....

Mtiger - you go girl! ran a mile? holy moly! My hips would disengage, my legs would fall off and I would have been lying helpless in a pool of my own flesh. My knees are creeking just thinking about it!

Auddie! Yay! We missed ya! We need a song to pump this week up! What should we sing??????

I really want to do personals ALL NIGHT. I can't tell you how much mental weight was lifted today for me. But I need to go to bed... OH but I saw 190 this morning girls... gonna stay with the OP eating and milk it for all its worth!

Be good to your selves! see ya sometime tomorrow.

Morning ladies.

Mindy a mile!!! that is so awsome, You have been working so hard at it! I am so happy for you (and I bet that you will see your body transform!!)

Nix things will get better.

Aud, good song!

Shari its good to see you. Take care of yourself.

Well another workday, thank goodness it is only two in a row. I did mostly good yesterday I only ate a little off plan (grazed while I made dinner). Today will be right on plan.

I hate spiders. I know most people don't like spiders, but I have night terrors about the dang creatures. So I got up this morning and went to grab my weights for my ab workout and I thought there is a spider in here. Sure enough a big ole' spider was on the wall close to the ceiling. Well I started my workout anyway and just watched the spider it was up high, it wouldn't touch me. So then my dang cat came in to lay down with me while I worked out and she saw the spider, she climbed up my weight machine and knocked the spider off the wall. So I quit my workout early. tempted to wake DH up to hunt for it and kill it. (sorry if anyone out there is against killing spiders)


WEEDy time

W 64 oz
E got about five minutes in abs today; extra laps at the plant
E 1200 planned calories
D stay on plan!


BTW my little contest I am still in second place I am about .74% below the gal above me So it is really on for the next 2 weeks.

Jeni, I'm with you on the spider thing. I can't even look at a picture without my palms sweating and my pulse quickening. Got terrorized as a kid by a couple of older cousins, they thought it was fun to make the little girl cousin scream and cry. Stupid, but it stops me in my tracks.

Another cloudy overcast muggy day here in the North east. Supposed to be like this through the beginning of next week. Some breaks of sun, which will cause T-storms and clouds to develop. Sounds like the weather those of you in the midwest have been getting. Hope the cool dry gets to us by next week when I'm on vacation.

W- 64 oz or better
E- 8 pieces of brocade, 1/2 hour form work
E- P2 1/carb serving
D-1 load of laundry; groceries; make appointment to get my car inspected; remember to stay calm, cool and professional when addressing my current displeasure with staffing issues with my manager. They pulled our 3rd nurse to day shift so days could have 3 nurses "because they need 3" making the sound of the afflac duck...."huh" WE also need 3... I will spare you my rant I'll just leave it I am so beyond tired of working short with a double patient assignment.

awww poor Jen....good thing you never saw my rental house LMAO....no matter what we did there were 'piders everywhere....yes that is 'piders without the first S

DH brought me leftovers last night from olive garden and then made dinner after i got home from rehearsal. Rehearsal kicked my butt.

Earlier I stretched. MY FAT IS ANGRY AT ME! I'm in pain LOL...from the 20 mins on the stairstepper yesterday. This is a *good* thing!!!!!

Hey there ladies! I hope everyone's week is going well (or getting better from how it was earlier). . .it's officially past noon on Wednesday (or at least it is here on the east coast) which means we're over halfway through the week!

JasonsLea, I hear ya on the sleep deprivation!! I've been soooo exhausted lately due to a serious lack of sleep and it's making it very difficult to stay motivated to work out . . .Monday I didn't do any cardio but spent about 45 minutes doing some resistance moves. I found this awesome arm move that doesn't require any weights and it reeeaalllyy works your triceps and biceps (at the same time)! It's kind of like a sideways one-armed push up. Fitness magazine said to work up to 2 sets of 24 reps, and they really mean you'll have to work up to it!! My arms were shaking by the 15th rep of the first set haha.

I didn't get to work out yesterday b/c I went to a concert after work and got home at about midnight. . .but I did dance around a little bit to the music. Today I'm supposed to meet my workout partner at the gym at 6, so maybe I can squeeze in a quick nap beforehand.

WEED time!
W-2 liters (only b/c it's easier for me to count in liters since I refill my 1 liter FIJI water bottle)
E-whatever I can force my exhausted muscles to put up with! I know I should to cardio...
E-1200 calories, no alcohol!
D- "I'm a firm believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it" -Thomas Jefferson

well i have made it back. ihave been lurking, just not writing. too ashamed i guess. TOM came and he brought friends, pain and agony. he has been real rough on me this month. very unusual for me. anyway i have had very little sleep in the last 4 days and the last thing on my mind right now is exercise and eating right. i know that is not a good way to be and that's why i keep losing and gaining the same 3 pounds. but i am simply struggling right now. everyone here is such an inspiration to me though. you all keep going even though you are all going through your own crap, i need to learn to do that to and to stop making excuses for stopping my plans. well maybe i can score some valium tonight and get some rest and be raring to go for the weekend.
wish me luck girls! mind over matter, right?!
p.s.: aud: I am not a nurse but i do work in the med profession. i am a billing and scheduling clerk for a cardiac rehab clinic. what do you do?